New Engagement!
Zalman (ben R’ Chaim Shaul) Brook (Crown Heights) and Bella (bas R’ Yossi) Lifshitz (Crown Heights)
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8:00pm: Are Some People Superior to Others?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 162, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can I Apply Lag B’Omer to My Life? When is Being “Wild” Appropriate? Does Chassidus Applied Compromise the Integrity of Chassidus? Are Some People Superior to Others? How to ‘Own’ the Place You’re In.
New Engagement!
Dovid (ben Menachem) Lipsh (Montreal, Canada) and Etty (bas Menachem) Gurevich (Crown Heights)
Gallery #2: The Great Lag BaOmer Parade
Thousands of children packed two full blocks of Eastern Parkway, in front of 770 – the Lubavtich World Headquarters, to celebrate Lag BaOmer with a parade and a show of Jewish Pride.
Gallery #1: The Great Lag BaOmer Parade
Thousands of children packed two full blocks of Eastern Parkway, in front of 770 – the Lubavtich World Headquarters, to celebrate Lag BaOmer with a parade and a show of Jewish Pride.
Monday: Shloshim in Memory of Reb Beryl Epstein
A ceremony will be held on Monday evening, May 15th, marking the Shloshim since the passing of a beloved member of the Crown Heights community, Rabbi Berel Epstein, OBM.
Live at 10:00am: The Great Lag Ba’omer Parade
Join the Great Lag Ba’omer Parade from anywhere in the world! Here on CrownHeights.info, a live broadcast of the parade will air beginning at 10:00am, courtesy of Jewish.tv. Thousands of Jewish children are expected to gather at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in New York for the monumental event.
Music Video: Yiten Lecha
The music video, set to a hit song from Shmuel Ungar‘s debut album, shows how Hashem gives us blessings in many different ways – even while we put the work in, the land, the learning, the giving, and everything else we do, we still rely on Hashem.
Photos: 100’s Celebrate Lag BaOmer in the Rain
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents of all ages turned out Motzai Shabbos for the Lag BaOmer bonfire on Kingston Avenue, in front of the George Wingate High School.
Rain Doesn’t Dampen Lag BaOmer Celebrations
A Lag BaOmer bonfire and celebration took place for the 33nd year running on Empire Boulevard, in the backyard of the Horowitz family home. Together, the Horowitz family and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Jewish Man Pistol-Whipped, Robbed in Miami
On Thursday night, an Orthodox-Jewish father of two was accosted by a pair of teens who robbed and brutally assaulted him outside his home in North Miami Beach, Florida.
Video: A Home Away from Home in Muslim Turkey
Jewish singing star Lipa Schmeltzer finds himself stuck in Istanbul, Turkey, for Shabbos – but not without a Shabbos table, thanks to Chabad.
Congressional Leaders Visit Mumbai Chabad House
Leading members of U.S. Congress paid a visit on May 11 to the Chabad House in Mumbai, India. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, New York Rep. Eliot L. Engel and Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern were there as part of a bipartisan delegation touring parts of the country.
Jewish Man Attacked with Ax in Dnepropetrovsk
A Jewish man was attacked by an ax-wielding assailant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, which was the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s hometown and boasts a sizable and active Jewish population. The victim is listed in critical condition.
Weekly Story: You Were Not Abandoned, Part 5 (Finale)
The year after the Rebbe added the new Mitzva campaign of Ahavas Yisroel, I had the nerve of asking him, “Rebbe, all the other Mitzva campaigns are practical mitzvos – a practice of a specific mitzva, but this new campaign of Ahavas Yisroel is basically theoretical and generalization without any specific act in mind?” The Rebbe looked very surprised.
Record Registration for Great Parade
Registration for this year’s Parade is the highest ever on record, parade organizers announced today. Seats are selling out quickly, with dozens of schools and Jewish organizations set to attend from across the Tri-state area.
New Engagement!
Berel Paltiel (Crown Heights) and Bracha Leah Caytak (Ottawa, Canada)
